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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
This service includes meeting rooms in the University Library, Mudd, Deering and NU Press
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
Bookings with me in Outlook is a web-based personal scheduling page that integrates with the free/busy information from your Outlook calendar.
Northwestern IT provides OS patching services to help standardize the security and functional levels of servers throughout the Northwestern virtual data center environment. This includes regular security and OS patching within established patch windows.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
Services include photographing headshots, live events, and other projects in high resolution digital photos for use in print, web, video, or other media.
Power Automate, formerly Microsoft Flow, is an online tool within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins, used for the creation of automated workflows between apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, and collect data.
Northwestern’s learning management system, Canvas, allows Northwestern instructors to deliver course materials, manage grades, and create learning activities and allows students to submit assignments and tests and view grades.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a cloud-based digital marketing automation system that Alumni Relations and Development (ARD), and their campus partners, use to send out broadcast email communications to their constituents.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
Northwestern IT operates firewalls for the Evanston and Chicago Data Centers. Firewall rule add/change/deletes must be requested through the Firewall Ruleset Modification Request Form.
JMP accelerates exploration and discovery, giving you new ways to visualize and understand your data and share your findings with others. Analysis is faster, especially with large data sets, and you get more options for drag-and-drop graph-building, as well as new tools for analyzing quality and reliability data, designing efficient experiments, interactively comparing models, creating customized applications, and more.
Northwestern provides lecture capture services for University schools, departments, and business units provide users with the ability to record and archive lecture videos for live or on-demand viewing from a web browser.
Microsoft Visio is a diagramming tool included in the suite of Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins. It enables users to create a wide range of visuals, from straightforward flowcharts to intricate network diagrams.
This service is for automated security alerting from the public cloud service providers.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
Regular data backups reduce the risk of permanent data loss that can occur for many reasons including hardware failure, power failure, and virus attacks. In continuing its commitment to the protection of mission critical data at the University, Northwestern IT is participating with University schools and departments to provide a secure hosted data backup solution for workstation machines.
This license provides access to DNAStar software for all faculty, and staff, of Northwestern University.
Northwestern IT offers support, training, and workshops for high-performance and high-throughput computing on Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing (HPC) cluster.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.